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What is Zorin OS? Linux for People Who Don’t Want to Leave Windows  How-To Geek

Thanks to the Canonical decision to commit to shipping the very latest upstream Linux kernels in Ubuntu releases moving forward, Ubuntu 24.10 shipping in October will have the Linux 6.11 kernel that is debuting as stable in mid-September. Canonical's kernel engineers are currently preparing for rolling out that new kernel version in the Oracular Oriole archive...

Jesse Taube Gets Linux Up and Running on the Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores  Hackster.io

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux  The Register

'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux  The Register

These 5 Linux file managers are way better than your default  ZDNet

The 7 biggest practical differences between Windows and Linux for users  ZDNet

The LLVM Fortran "Flang" compiler effort has been a long time coming over the years with this programming language continuing to be popular among some HPC codebases and other applications. The "Flang-New" compiler code has been maturing nicely and is looking like soon it could be possibly be renamed to Flang...

Dolphin Emulator is creating an official Linux Flatpak for the Steam Deck GameCube and Wii emulation  ReadWrite

The AMD PMC driver used for the SoC power management controller already supports the initial AMD Zen 5 SoCs but new patches coming in as "fixes" for the Linux 6.11 kernel extend the coverage for some upcoming AMD platforms...

Intel Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the Xe Direct Rendering Manager that is becoming the default kernel graphics driver beginning with Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage hardware (it currently works as an experimental option with existing Intel graphics hardware going back to Tigerlake). The latest work coming out of Intel is their latest push on enabling GPU Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Azure Linux as Microsoft's in-house Linux operating system that is used for a variety of purposes is out with a new feature release...

Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0.20240824 Enables More Kernel Features, Adds XWayland  Phoronix

Being merged for Mesa 24.3 to the Freedreno open-source Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs is now supporting the Adreno 621 and 505 graphics processors...

Microsoft releases KB5041587 update for Windows 11, improving Windows Share, Narrator and Voice Access, but failing to address Linux dual boot issues  BetaNews

The best Linux web hosting services in 2024  Tom's Guide

A Simple Ubuntu Fail Made Me Want to Try Fedora: I Love it!  It's FOSS News

Linux Distribution deepin 23 Officially Released  Linux Journal

Lightweight Polish Linux distro 4MLinux hits version 46.0  Notebookcheck.net

RISC-V NOMMU Linux now runs on the Raspberry Pi RP2350  Adafruit Blog